> I always thought that browsers just read from top to bottom. That's > why having a 'reset.css' (taking out any default styles) can be > overwritten by awesome coders like ourselves.
No, it's because the specificity rules say that anything in a style sheet overrules default styles. > Where are you getting this 'specificity' stuff from? The spec. Section 6.4.3 "Calculating a selector's specificity" http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#specificity There are basically three tallies when figuring out specificity. There's basic tags (a). There's tags with classes (a.nav). and there's tags with id's (a#home). Something with a class is more specific than something without one, so it wins. Something with an id is more specific than something with a class, so it wins. Also, something with two selectors is more specific than something with one selector ("div.footer a" is more specific than "a"). If two selectors have the same specificity, the one later in the file wins. ---Tim ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
